Issues of Dynamic Coalition Formation Among Rational Agents

Abstract

We introduce the notion, issues, and challenges of dynamic coalition formation (DCF) among rational software agents in open, heterogeneous and work widely distributed environments such as the Internet and Web. Selected relevant approaches coping with only parts of the DCF problem domain in different disciplines such as decision theory, social reasoning, and machine learning are briefly discussed. Finally, we sketch one novel DCF scheme, and highlight some future research work towards a general framework of dynamic coalition formation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADP012342

Entities

People

  • Andreas Gerber
  • Matthias Klusch

Organizations

  • German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Agents
  • Commerce
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Game Theory
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Mobile Phones
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Negotiations
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML